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1. Pensions and Unions
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...  Second : Our public employees have better benefit packages and yearly increases then any private sector job I know of. They are still receiving 3 and 4% increases while their peers are being laid ...

2. Gov. Christie takes it to public employees on ‘60 Minutes’
(N.J./State)

... employees, just like private-sector employees, have been laid off and taken pay and benefit cuts --- even as Wall Street executives lined their pockets with taxpayer money and took home huge bonuses.  ...

3. Alex DeCroce
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I will gladly send him my resume' so he can get me a job, But I would need a valid email address I can't even get an interview but he apperntly can get 40, single mom, without a degree the jon I was laid ...

4. Alex DeCroce is right about N.J. unemployment benefits
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  According to my friend's son who runs a manufacturing plant in the upper Midwest, laid off workers have told him that they are not ready to go back to work because their unemployment benefits have ...

5. Other states value New Jersey police more than we do
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE AMATO COMMENTARY I was shocked at first to hear of all the states around the country who are actively trying to recruit police officers from New Jersey who were recently laid off, but then I ...

6. New Jersey’s poor need Gov. Christie to care about their health
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of hard-fought compromise so the centers can receive adequate Medicaid reimbursement for expanding their sites and services. The standards laid out in the state's proposed regulations have been backed ...

7. New Jersey unemployment unchanged
(Money/Economy)

...  Even as retailers prepared for the holiday shopping season, they laid-off 3,600 people. In the construction industry, 4,500 people found work, but another 4,500 were laid off. The gain of 1,200 jobs ...

8. N.J. teachers' union unveils its version of education reform plan
(N.J./State)

... and teachers. Among other things, the governor wants educators evaluated on their ability to teach students and not laid off based on seniority. Keshishian said a key element of the NJEA proposal is what ...

9. Death of New Jersey baseball player puts spotlight on commotio cordis
(Health/Healthquest)

... to have the devices. It has yet to be adopted. NBC New York reports Adams will be laid to rest Tuesday. The funeral procession will leave a church in Garnerville, N.Y., near where many of Thomas Adams' ...

10. Jersey Shore’s Angelina Pivarnick has diva meltdown in Atlantic City
(Entertainment/Movies)

... for, as she said, "I got laid by an insect" and was disappointed that the grudge match didn't take place. Pivarnick, who quit MTV's "Jersey Shore" twice over two seasons, released a rap single "I'm Hot" ...

11. Police Officers
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why are the police officers being laid off , they might become ppor now and not be able to provide for their family . ...

12. China’s great ‘green’ leap forward
(World/International)

... being issued from Beijing on an almost weekly basis. Last week officials pledged to generate 100 gigawatts of electricity from wind power by 2020, more than tripling the original target of 30GW laid down ...

13. Gifts should be what elders love
(Health/Healthquest)

... and wore them until his death at 94. He also liked checkered jackets and plaid slacks. And he usually mixed the different prints with a bow tie that was of still another print. What was important was ...

14. Vince Lombardi's players don't have a seat at the NFL lockout talks
(Sports/Professional)

... suffer major losses and some team and league personnel would be laid off. But the AFL-CIO is right about one thing, the over-the-air, cable and satellite TV partners will fund the lockout which means that ...

15. TSA’s Nazi-like tactics should be rejected by Americans
(Opinion/Commentary)

... heroic fighters killed untold German soldiers, laid mines and attacked convoys. In 1949, my parents decided to immigrate to America so they and their children (including yours truly) would live in their ...

16. Boehm Porcelain saves dozens of jobs in New Jersey
(Money/Economy)

... studio that fateful day and was greeted with tears by Maria Ristaino, gallery manager. "They're shutting us down," Ms. Ristaino said. "They have already laid off all but four of us." Parker replied, ...

17. Commission recommends Gov. Christie unload state-run Monmouth Park and Meadowlands racetracks
(N.J./State)

... the legislation, the Joint Law Enforcement Task Force would be authorized to hire current Atlantic City police officers and Atlantic City police officers who had been laid-off within 24 months of the bill's ...

18. Is Lindsay Lohan news taking honor from our veterans?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... MATTHEW WEIKERT was laid to rest in Jacksonville, Illinois, thousands of people turned out to pay their last respects. So large was the crowd that police closed traffic on one of the community's main thoroughfares. ...

19. Fawn Hill estate in New Vernon on auction block
(Money/Economy)

... designers and 17 landscape designers that worked on the project. The patio was rebuilt and retained, ponds were built and new brickwork was laid. In the course of one month, 21,000 visitors went through ...

20. Gov. Christie signs bill protecting unemployment benefits
(Money/Economy)

Democratic-sponsored legislation designed to address abuses that lead to improper delay and denial or unemployment benefits for laid-off workers has been signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie. The bill ...